What's the difference between duplicitous and perfidious?

Duplicitous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A section is dedicated to Palestinian fatalities, which deals largely with what it claims are Hamas’s duplicitous numbers.
  • (2) With [Nigel] Farage – everybody knows that he is duplicitous and he’ll say one thing in one street and something completely different in another but he comes across as though there is some sort of authenticity around him.
  • (3) But neglecting our relationship with Turkey, creating a smokescreen around our real intentions, blowing hot and cold on Ankara’s European future, promising the moon and then retracting it: this duplicitous attitude has created the situation we have today, and we are now paying the highest price for it.
  • (4) It is a strange and fickle beast, a flexible friend, dubious and duplicitous, as I was about to find out.
  • (5) In 4 patients there were duplicit pheochromocytomas and in one triplicit (both adrenals and an extraadrenal pheochromocytoma).
  • (6) Starring Tim Roth – the actor famous for playing the duplicitous Mr Orange in Reservoir Dogs – as Fifa’s current president Sepp Blatter, Gérard Depardieu as the World Cup creator Jules Rimet, and the New Zealand actor Sam Neill as Blatter’s predecessor João Havelange, it bills itself as the story of “a group of passionate European mavericks” who “join forces on an ambitious project: the Fédération Internationale de Football Association”.
  • (7) The novel opens with Clay's return from New York to Los Angeles, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a Hollywood-noir thriller plot involving threatening texts from unseen stalkers, dark and duplicitous sex, sinister disappearances and the requisite scenes of unspeakable violence.
  • (8) More widely, it is designed to portray the Ecuadorean government as duplicitous.
  • (9) He will teach that the bombing of Hiroshima was premised on a lie, that the CIA's secret war against leftist Central American governments was based on chimerical communist threat, that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were follies and, perhaps most intolerable of all to patriots, that the United States of America is just as self-serving, duplicitous, corrupt, oppressive, expansionist and racist as – there's no easy way to say this – the British empire.
  • (10) He was clever, duplicitous and manipulative and took advantage of weaknesses in the system.
  • (11) Then take it on the chin when your boiling frustration because you can't express yourself at the ballot box is dismissed by smug, duplicitous politicians as "voter apathy".
  • (12) When it comes to Russian and US domestic politics, the worst stereotypes – Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy, America as a duplicitous hegemon – proliferate on both sides.
  • (13) So they dissociate from all these qualities, project them out on to others, and develop duplicitous personalities that are on the run, which is why ex-boarders make the best spies.
  • (14) Nigel Lawson won top marks for the most duplicitously twisted argument: he was voting against because this amendment would “stir up fear” in these EU residents, when there is “no question” of their expulsion.
  • (15) Imagine that someone told you that your close friend, whom you trusted, was actually duplicitous, could dump you and was disliked by your father.
  • (16) Israel’s policy towards Gaza since the unilateral disengagement in 2005 has consisted of the systematic violations of international humanitarian law, duplicitous diplomacy and large doses of brute military force.
  • (17) Even if it turns out that Isis was not involved the narrative is set, and so the boons of publicity far outweigh the drawbacks to being outed as duplicitous.
  • (18) Villanova's second title is even more unfathomable than 1985's giant-killers Read more The skills in college are lousy, the best players seem to treat the games as pro tryouts, and the coaches are more duplicitous than ever – hard to accomplish in a profession likened to hucking used cars.
  • (19) "This would appear to confirm that Khan was not a rogue operator; secondly, that the military was deeply involved in what he was doing; and that thirdly, it confirms the growing concerns that the Pakistani military is not working in our interests, at best, and is duplicitous at worst."
  • (20) Though the duplicitous Pakistani Inter-Services agency helped make and mould them, there's scant double-dealing in the way they fight now.

Perfidious


Definition:

  • (a.) Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.
  • (a.) Involving, or characterized by, perfidy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (2) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.
  • (3) A defence ministry statement said the rebels "cynically and perfidiously" shot down the plane using anti-aircraft guns and heavy calibre machine guns.
  • (4) After stating earlier this week that "politics have to reassert primacy over the financial markets", she said that the "speculators are our opponents" and described the banks as "perfidious".
  • (5) Donald Trump's homicidal healthcare bill will kill some, and enrich others | Adam Gaffney Read more Pelosi is not alone in her perfidy.
  • (6) Perfidious as Albion may be, the other 27 member states did not want to trigger its departure from the union.
  • (7) In part, this results from the reasonable thinking that the financial crisis, or at least the manner of perfidy that led to it, never ended.
  • (8) What is interesting, however, is that in Italy, the work is done to expose these perfidies: if you go into any Feltrinelli bookshop, you will see shelves of books that detail them, by brave reporters working with equally bold examining magistrates like those in Palermo, past and present.
  • (9) That’s all the perfidy of terrorism, to resort to blackmail, death and threats,” the prime minister, Manuel Valls, told Europe 1 radio.
  • (10) He is drawn back again and again to the perfidy of pretty much everybody in the music industry who doesn’t make music themselves.
  • (11) Realism in foreign policy has a long and distinguished tradition, not least in Britain – otherwise the French would never complain about 'perfidious Albion'.
  • (12) The perfidious Poms will keep the two George Stubbs paintings in Greenwich, London, where they will hang in the National Maritime Museum .
  • (13) So the Journal became a repository of all the woes and disappointed hopes suffered in their "hard and horrible struggle against anonymity": critical indignities, lack of sales, the perfidy of reviewers, the unmerited success of friends (some of whom, like Zola, were celebrated for techniques the Goncourts claimed to have pioneered).
  • (14) She has more in common with Blair, too, than she thinks – in her Chilcot appearance it was striking how blame and perfidy and mistakes lie anywhere but at her door.
  • (15) This is, of course, the traditional role of the perfidious Anglo-American world in the French imagination.
  • (16) For Hollywood, which he called "Shepherd's Bush wrapped in cellophane", and the domestic industry he adapted the act in more than 100 films to roles such as the Roundhead colonel in the British civil-war epic The Scarlet Blade (1963), the perfidious Inspector Fred "Nosey" Parker in The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962), and as Stanley Farquhar, the spy who was as inefficient as the dog in The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966).
  • (17) The perfidies of Albion may be many in the eyes of Scottish nationalists but they do not begin to compare to what Catalans feel about Madrid.
  • (18) But the significance of these savage executions – bodies tortured and torched or dumped in a river – lies in the entwining of ideological and narco violence: two nightmares, two perfidious calculations, in one.
  • (19) The EU budget, to those who moved and supported the rebel amendment, is a symbol of the perfidy of the EU itself.
  • (20) In a recent interview the BBC's Stephen Sackur harangued him about Pakistani perfidy.